I pasted the Quackle plaintext board into here between the Code brackets, and then added zeroes to the row indicators so the board wouldn't align one space off. It took a little work, but that's the easiest method I've found so far.

Trashman, does the board I posted not display properly for you, or are you posting one of your own that isn't working? Does everyone else see the board okay, or does anyone have other suggestions on how to do wysiwyg# displays? (actually, the Quackle plaintext boards don't paste in monospace font here. I wonder if having a Courier New option might help, if it's possible).

If you look in the administration tools for the forum, you can add your own BBCode tag above (something like "scrabbleboard" or whatever you want to call it). Then you can put your board between [scrabbleboard] tags. You can put a <pre>{TEXT}</pre> as the definition of this scrabbleboard tag. I got this working on the forum I set up, and I believe you don't have to add those 0s, etc to line up the board.

I don't know how to get rid of some of the bbcode, like we don't need the "code" tag, but based on the limited research I did into it I couldn't figure it out. Also, I think it would be super cool if the tag could somehow call a script that would actually display the board with colors, instead of a text version of it, but I don't know how hard that is.

cesar wrote:You can put a <pre>{TEXT}</pre> as the definition of this scrabbleboard tag. I got this working on the forum I set up, and I believe you don't have to add those 0s, etc to line up the board.

Done. Can you test? ("scrabbleboard" it is)

cesar wrote:I don't know how to get rid of some of the bbcode, like we don't need the "code" tag, but based on the limited research I did into it I couldn't figure it out. Also, I think it would be super cool if the tag could somehow call a script that would actually display the board with colors, instead of a text version of it, but I don't know how hard that is.

I could turn it into <img src=" (some cross-tables URL) "> which returns a pretty picture... oooh... but not right now.

cesar wrote:You can put a <pre>{TEXT}</pre> as the definition of this scrabbleboard tag. I got this working on the forum I set up, and I believe you don't have to add those 0s, etc to line up the board.

Just a thought -- on certain movie forums there is a way to post spoilers as blacked out boxes. You just have to highlight it with the cursor if you want to read it. That feature may be useful in the position/strategy forum for posting answers to puzzles.